Historical ideas about dinosaurs, like this iguanodon in London’s Crystal Palace, have changed over time Lynn Hilton/Alamy
Thames & Hudson
Columbia University Press
“I AM often asked ‘what is the point of palaeontology?'”, writes Michael Benton towards the end of his frustrating new book, The Dinosaurs Rediscovered. I often asked myself the same question while I was reading it.
Benton is a renowned dinosaur palaeontologist at the University of…
